World HQ.
Mother's Flying Away Day.
A grey, very wet day in Bredonborough. I am waiting for the joiner to arrive & discuss shelves.
11.58 The joiner has been & gone. He is unable to tell me how the shelves, as built, are not what I asked for.
The good news: a very good discussion with David, which is ongoing & wide-ranging, addressing our personal, professional & DGM aspirations. Very briefly, we are addressing the question: how to be human beings & professional musician/composer/arranger/author simultaneously?
A difficulty, perhaps even a problem, for me is how to hold this aspiration in front of a contemporary audience. If we address what is higher in us all, our common humanity, there is a possibility that this "higher" responds. We can rely upon the lower nature, particularly when large numbers of people come together: many successful professionals do. But if the lower is all that is addressed, that's all that's likely to be available.
Encountering the public, such as on tour, is to run into a solid wall of automaticity, fearsome demands for expectations to be met, and consumer satisfaction to be provided. I find this exhausting, dangerous & (on occasion) damaging.
An ongoing question in our discussions: how can Crimson continue in a way that is creative & workable, and is less pressured for me?
20.20 World HQ.
Continuing to move equipment into Music Room II.
The profitable discussions with David continued through lunch. At the end of the afternoon we viewed a property three miles outside Bredonborough. We are looking for a possible GC house, DGM office, and home for the Singletons. This fine Queen Anne building covered two of the three areas --
-- and is also expensive.
Now, dealing with a smell in the cellar at home.
"When we recognise a fault in others, we recognise a fault in ourselves."
